Free Mammogram Screenin g s Cleveland Courtship If you have questions about cancer, now's your chance to ask the doctors. Guest Speakers Dr. Eric Brown, M.D. & Dr. William Keatenberg, M.D. Wednesday, September 23,1998 Karmanos Cancer Institute, in conjunction with the Michigan Surgical Associates and ManorCare Health Services, will be bringing their MAMMOVANS to offer free Mammogram screenings. Dr. Brown . and Dr. Keatenberg of Michigan Surgical Associates, will be on hand to present information about breast and prostate cancer. Join us for this special seminar and screenings. Seating is limited, so make your reservation early, weekdays between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ManorCare Health Services Community Room 6950 Farmington Rd. W. Bloomfield, MI I 1:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ManorCare Health Services' Call 248-855-2046 for reservations. 199H ManorCare Health Services. Inc. , ‘, R (t 4) ttik , Art Van Furniture invites you to attend a GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION To Benefit Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute 11Chesolay, Cfepienater ( 23 Entertainment by National Recording Artist Sister Hazel and The Atomic Fireballs Cocktails, Strolling Supper and Dessert Silent Auction HONOREES Beverly & Merton J. Segal • Roy D. Baynes, M.D., Ph. D., Piro^tor, Bone Marrow Transplant Program Tickets: $250 -'Benefactor" • £125 - "Friend" • 150 - "Afterglow" For tickets and additional information, call 1-800-KARMANCS ext. 6706 PARTNERS BALL Jeff Barker Jennifer Silverman PARTNERS LEADERSHIP Anthony Amine Paul Silverman SILENT AUCTION Cindy Friedman Karen Weiss Eunice Ring Sharon Wood Proceeds from the r ent will benefit the Barbara Ann Kermanos Cancer Institute supporting the Suzanne Korman Morton Cancer Research Fund and the Karmanos Cancer Institute's Bone Marrow Transplant Program. 9/11 1998 22 Detroit Jewish News Yeshiva Beth Yehudah hires a dean to coordinate its overall educational planning. JULIE WIENER Staff Writer R Fishman had many of Beth Yehudah's teachers visit his school in Cleveland so they could observe classes at Mosdos Ohr HaTorah and become acquainted with him. "I'm a big believer in the impor- tance of staff development," said Fishman. "You have to be rejuvenated, whether it's from going to a conven- tion or taking courses or observing someone else in action." Fishman said he has some ideas for changes at the yeshiva, but is getting his bearings before launching any ini- tiatives and expects to spend his first year focusing on the day-to-day opera- tions of the boys' school. abbi Avrohom Fishman's marriage to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah comes after a lengthy courtship. The yeshiva recruited Fishman to be its first dean, despite the fact that the rabbi was happily employed at Mosdos Ohr HaTorah Academy of Cleveland, a day school he helped establish in 1978. "Yeshiva Beth Yehudah brought me in as a scholar-in-residence for a week- end, then they were on my tail for a year and a half," Fishman joked, sitting in his new Beth Yehudah office on the second day of school. While searching for some- one to replace Rabbi Avraham Cohen as the boys' school principal (Cohen had request- ed more time in the class- room), Beth Yehudah's board decided it needed someone who could also coordinate overall educational and com- munal planning for the entire institution. And after net- working and placing calls to Torah U'Mesorah, the nation- Rabbi Avrohom Fishman: Proponent of staff devel- al association of Orthodox opment. day schools, the yeshiva The father of 12 (three of whom decided on the 49-year-old Fishman. still live at home), Fishman is joined "He's one of the premier educators at school by his wife, Basya, who will in America," said Executive Director be teaching at Beth Jacob. Born in Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld. "He's very well Rhode Island and raised in Brooklyn, known and is someone people call in Fishman has spent most of his adult order to get outside opinions on edu- life in Cleveland, where he attended cational matters. And the board here yeshiva and trained to be a rabbi. has the attitude that if someone's right "Rabbi Fishman is an extremely tal- for the job, it doesn't matter if they're ented educator and a very fine individ- looking or not." ual," said Beth Yehudah President Eventually the nudging and negoti- Gary Torgow. "He's very learned and ating paid off Fishman became a full- seems to be just a wonderful person." time presence at the school last week. Rabbi Cohen, whom Fishman That followed months of long-dis- replaces as boys' school principal, is tance consulting during which now teaching eighth grade while coor- Fishman would periodically drive in dinating Partners in Torah (an adult for business visits from Cleveland education program open to the com- while listening to Jewish history munity at large) and other outreach audio-cassettes on his car's tape deck. programs for the yeshiva. ❑ In preparing for the transition,